MetLife reviews

-Lack of focused and measured training for new hires. No actual benchmarks or goals. -Fragmented focus on projects and training. -Well established group with sub-cliques…manager did not run the department. -Sold as a “start-up” within recruiting and onboarding stating MetLife desires your input and suggestions, the reality is they don’t want your feedback or suggestions. Just do the job yesterday and don’t question anything. -Siloes and no interdepartmental cooperation exists. Unprofessional language and behavior abounds between departments and personnel. -Obsolete and antiquated technologies…regressive and not a career builder for anyone. -Managers are process managers, not people managers. -If your group dislikes you for any reason, you will be pushed out. This is the same group that you don’t meet when interviewing for the job. Huge disadvantage for incoming hires. -Communication between managers and subordinates is opaque at best. You never receive any feedback on your proposals or training progress. -Company is only concerned with how it looks to its shareholders. This is at ALL costs! -Morale is a joke. Disregard what you’re told upon interviewing. -Massive loss of knowledge with their elimination of the previously existing workforce for the move to NC. No knowledge transfer.

In case you are perhaps not informed, MetLife is relocating all data processing information technology personnel (primarily from the North East) to the Research Triangle area (Raleigh and surrounds) in NC. All previous telecommuting arrangements are being effectively entirely cancelled, and more disgustingly, non-management employees are being required to re-apply for their existing jobs at what they are being told by management in advance will be "regionally adjusted" (meaning lowered) salaries generally ranging from 15-25% lower. This treatment from the company that so highly "values their employees," that brings you Charlie Brown and Snoopy, and that also brings you the blimp (not coincidentally also filled with a considerable amount of hot air). Their IT environment is ever increasingly in disarray as qualified and experienced employees (many with decades of dedicated service to MetLife) head for the exit and are replaced with (most certainly less expensive) far less to entirely inexperienced youngsters still wearing their (local) college graduation gowns for their security badge photos. We do understand the tremendous pressure MetLife is under to hire people for the newly created local jobs in NC, however, since those tremendous amounts of state subsidies are, of course, based entirely upon MetLife meeting their very public hiring quota promises to the NC state government.